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Earth, Environment, and Ecosystems
Climate
Water Resources
Biodiversity
Environmental Ethics
Dictionaries
Plant Journals

 

A Good Place To Start..

 

Golley, Frank B. 1998. A Primer for Environmental literacy. New Haven: Yale University Press.

This book uses a "top-down" approach, starting on a global scale and ending with individual organisms, that includes a reading list on each topic. An excellent book to use as a gateway into environmental literature.
Bass GE70 G67X 1998

Miller, Joseph A. 1993. The Island Press Bibliography of Environmental Literature. Washington, Island Press.
Forestry Reference Z5322 E2 185X 1993

 

Earth, Environment, and Ecosystems

 

Bailey, Robert G. 1995. Ecosystem Geography. New York, Springer.

Cole, Lamont. 1958. "The Ecosphere." Scientific American 198: 2-7.

Forman, Richard T., and Michel Godron. 1986. Landscape Ecology. New York, Wiley.

Golley, Frank B. 1994. A History of the Ecosystem Concept: More than the Sum of the Parts. New Haven, Yale University Press. Bass, HSGM QH540.8 G64X 1993 (LC)

Hansen, Andrew J., and Francesco di Castri. 1992. Landscape Boundaries: Consequences for Biotic Diversity and Ecological Flows. New York, Springer.
HSGM QH541.15 E27 L36X 1992 (LC)

Lovelock, James E. 1979. Gaia: A New Look at Life on Earth. Oxford, Oxford University Press.
Kline QH313 L68 1979

Man and the Ecosphere. 1971. Readings from Scientific American . San Francisco, W. H. Freeman.
Epidem. GF8 E35

Patten, Bernard C., and Sven Jorgensen. 1995. Complex Ecology: The Part-Whole Relation in Ecosystems. Englewood Cliffs, N.J., Prentice Hall.
Kline QH541.15 S5 C65X 1995

Whittake, R.H. 1970. Communities and Ecosystems. New York, Macmillan.
Kline QH541 W45 1975

 

Climate

 

Bryson, Reid A. 1974. "A Perspective on Climatic Change." Science 184:753-60.

Walter, Heinrich. 1973. Vegetation of the Earth: In Relation to Climate and the Ecophysiological Conditions. New York, Springer.
HSGM QH544 W3513 1973

 

Water, Watersheds, and Rivers

 

Bolling, David. 1994. How to Save a River: A Handbook for Citizen Action. California, Island Press.
HSGM QH76 B65X 1994 (LC)

Clarke, Robin. 1993. Water: The International Crisis. Cambridge, MIT Press.
HSGM TD345 C59X 1993 (LC)

Feldman, David. 1991. Water Resources Management: In Search of an Environmental Ethic. Baltimore, Johns Hopkins University Press.
SML, HD1694 A5 F46X 1991 (LC)

Gleick, Peter. 1993. Water in Crisis: A Guide to the World's Fresh-Water Resources. New York, Oxford University Press.
HSGM TD345 +W264X 1993 (LC)

Naiman, Robert J. 1992. Watershed Management: Balancing Sustainability and Environmental Change. New York, Springer.
HSGM Temp control # FLY9098

Pomeroy, Lawrence. 1974. "The Ocean's Food Web: A Changing Paradigm." Bioscience 24, no.9: 499-504.

 

Biodiversity

 

Grumbine, R.E. Ghost Bears: Exploring the Biodiversity Crisis. Covelo, California. Island Press.
HSGM QH75 G75X 1992 (LC)

Kellert, Stephen R. 1996. The Value of Life: Biological Diversity and Human Existence. Covelo, Calif., Island Press.
HSGM Reserve, Bass GF21 K47X 1996 (LC)

Mech, David. 1970. The Wolf: The Ecology and Behavior of an Endangered Species. Garden City, N.Y. Natural History Press.
HSGM QL737 C22 M43

 

Environmental Ethics

 

Callicot, J. Baird. 1987. Companion to "A Sand Country Almanac.": Interpretive and Critical Essays. Madison, University of Wisconsin Press.
Bass QH81 L563 C66 1987

Johnson, Larry E. 1991. A Morally Deep World: An Essay on Moral Significance and Environmental Ethics. New York, Cambridge University Press.

Kellert, Stephen R., and E.O. Wilson. 1993. The Biophilia Hypothesis. Covelo, Calif. Island Press.
Bass GF21 B56X 1993

Leopold, Aldo. 1949. A Sand County Alamanc and Sketches Here and There. New York: Oxford University Press.
"... influential in fostering the recent rise of ecological and naturalistic thought. ... should be read for historical interest, and for understanding the source of the ideological thrust of the modern movement." Arthur Galston, Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology Recommended Reading Page
KLINE: KSL QH81 L46 1949

Ralston, Holmes III. 1988. Environmental Ethics: Duties to and Values in the Natural World. Phil., Temple University Press.
HSGM GF80 R64 1988 LC

Taylor, Paul W. 1981. "The Ethics of Respect for Nature." Environmental Ethics 3: 197-218.
SML, HSGM GF80 T39 1986 (LC)

 

 

Dictionaries

Botanical Latin: history, grammar, syntax, terminology and vocabulary by William T. Stearn.
KSL Reference QK 10 S74 1992

Collegiate Dictionary of Botany by Delbert Swartz.
KSL Reference QK 9 S92 1971

Dictionary of Geological Terms. 1984. 3rd rev. ed. Ed. by Robert L. Bates and Julia A. Jackson. Garden City, NY : Anchor Press/Doubleday,.
QE5 A48 1976 GEO

Facts on File: Dictionary of Biology. expanded and revised, 1988. ed. by Elizabeth Tootil. New York: Facts on File, 1981.
QH13 F35 1988 Bass Ref

Geologic Reference Sources: A Subject and Regional Bibliography of Publications and Maps in the Geological Sciences. Dederick Ward, Marjorie W. Wheeler and Robert A. Bier, Jr. 2nd ed. Metuchen, NJ : Scarecrow Press, 1981.
Z6031 W37 1981 GEO

McGraw-Hill Dictionary of the Life Sciences. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1976.
QH302.5 M3 1976 KSL Ref and MED

Plants and Their Names: a concise dictionary by R. Hyam and R. Pankhurst. Oxford University Press, 1995.
KSL Reference QK 96 P35X 1995

 

Major Journals in Plant Sciences:

Advances in Botanical Research
American Journal of Botany
Annals of Botany
Annual Review of Plant Physiology [and Plant Molecular Biology]
Botanical Journal of the Linnaean Society
Critical Reviews in Plant Science
Economic Botany
Journal of Experimental Botany
Journal of Phycology
Plant Cell
Plant Journal: for cell and molecular biology
Planta
Taxon
Vegetation

 

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